Pseudo-abelian varieties

zbMATH Open1286.14061arXiv1104.0856MaRDI QIDQ5404640FDOQ5404640

Authors: Burt Totaro 

Publication date: 28 March 2014

Abstract: Chevalley's theorem states that every smooth connected algebraic group over a perfect field is an extension of an abelian variety by a smooth connected affine group. That fails when the base field is not perfect. We define a pseudo-abelian variety over an arbitrary field k to be a smooth connected k-group in which every smooth connected affine normal k-subgroup is trivial. This gives a new point of view on the classification of algebraic groups: every smooth connected group over a field is an extension of a pseudo-abelian variety by a smooth connected affine group, in a unique way. We work out much of the structure of pseudo-abelian varieties. These groups are closely related to unipotent groups in characteristic p and to pseudo-reductive groups as studied by Tits and Conrad-Gabber-Prasad. Many properties of abelian varieties such as the Mordell-Weil theorem extend to pseudo-abelian varieties. Finally, we conjecture a description of Ext^2(G_a,G_m) over any field by generators and relations, in the spirit of the Milnor conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0856

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupWeil restrictionunipotent grouppseudo-abelian varietypseudo-reductive group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Abelian varieties and schemes (14K99) Group schemes (14L15) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Arithmetic problems in algebraic geometry; Diophantine geometry (14G99)

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